[Leica] Re: The "film" look

[lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

On Dec 2, 2006, at 10:20 PM, Ted wrote:

> Digital is digital and if one is into it, then get a completely  
> digital life
> and get on with it! Is one not some kind of masochist by making  
> their images
> look like film? I can see doing the film look if digital gave ugly  
> results,
> but for my money digital produces beautiful prints the likes one  
> can't do in
> the dark room no matter how many years they've had their hands in  
> the soup,
> stop bath and fixer!

Right on Ted. But take your premise a bit further. EVERYTHING seen on  
the LUG is digital regardless of the means used to capture the image.  
Film is scanned, the image digitized and converted to a JPEG format,  
transmitted in itty bitty bytes to Brian's server, where it is  
reassembled and digitally resized, then retransmitted digitally to  
our computers where it is further digitally massaged by our software  
and presented as a digital image on our monitors. If you display your  
work on a computer screen, you are doing digital photography. If you  
want to be a film purist, make silver gelatin prints and display them  
on the wall.

Larry Z